I like the taste of straight strychnine!

THE BANSHEE BEAT, episode four.

Notes: When listening to the stream (which you can access anytime at rainydawg radio), please disregard the first approx. five minutes, that is not my doing!! I would never play whatever that was, srsly. The clock in the station was crazy and I had no idea what time it actually was or what was going to be at "2:00" in the archive. Also, LOVE THE CONTINUED TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. Sorry. You may note that only one channel was working for most of my show, so I don't recommend listening on headphones unless you want to get really irritated. Still worth listening though, I swear!

1. White Mice- The Mo-Dettes (White Mice 7")
2. It's Obvious- Au Pairs (Playing With A Different Sex)
3. Mind Your Own Business- Delta 5 (Singles and Sessions 1979-1981)
4. What Do You Take Me For- Y Pants (Beat It Down)
5. Cherry Cherry- The Fizzbombs (Surfin' Winter 12")
6. Negative Push- The Manhattan Love Suicides (The Manhattan Love Suicides)
7. Youth Haunts- Weekend (Sports)
8. Simian- The Gist (Embrace the Herd)
9. Nostalgia- Penetration (Moving Targets)
10. Time to Get Up- Los Microwaves (Time to Get Up 7")
11. The Laughing Policeman- The Suspicions (Laughing Policeman 7")
12. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave- Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (Heat Wave)
13. Gimme Gimme- Nikki and the Corvettes (Nikki and the Corvettes)
14. Let's Go Steady- Dow Jones and the Industrials (Dow Jones and the Industrials 7")
15. Hey!- Home Blitz (Home Blitz)
16. A Girl Like You- The Mummies (Death By Unga Bunga!!)
17. Unreleased- Robot Assassins
18. Strychnine- Thee Headcoatees (Sisters of Suave)
19. Big in Japan- Big in Japan (Brutality, Religion, and A Dance Beat 7")
20. Cheree- Suicide (Suicide: The First Album)
21. Loose- The Birthday Party/Lydia Lunch (Drunk On the Pope's Blood)
22. Delicate Genius Backstage- Dan Melchior und Das Menace (Split 7" w/The Fresh and Onlys)
23. Prison Planet- RHOMBU$ (No Fancy Girlfriends EP)
24. Girlfriend- Ty Segall (Melted)
25. Never Together- Jeffrey Novak (After the Ball)
26. Unemployment Forever- Meth Teeth (Bus Rides 7")
27. Reunion Psicodelica- Los Holy's (Suena Sicodelico)
28. You Don't Know- 13th Floor Elevators (The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Elevators)
29. Runaway- Del Shannon (Runaway 7")
30. Hey Little Girl- Idle Times (Idle Times)
31. It's the Only Time- The Girls At Dawn (The Girls At Dawn)
32. All Things Come to Pass- The Babies (All Things Come to Pass 7")
33. Draft Riot- The Del-Byzanteens (Lies to Live By)
34. Sci-Fi Guy- Strawberry Story (Sci-Fi Guy 7")

I hate danger, I like fucking!

Here is the playlist for the 3rd episode of my new radio show, the namesake of this blog, THE BANSHEE BEAT. You can tune into the stream at www.rainydawg.org but note the strange technical issues (I still don't know exactly what was wrong) which prevented my voice from reaching you! Lame. But the music is not!


1. Captain Of Your Ship- Reparata and the Delrons
2. Kerdja Kami- Dara Puspita (a Go GO...)
3. Aku Rindu- Koes Bersaudara (Meraju Kalbu)
4. Time Sucker- Mind Spiders (Mind Spiders 7")
5. Happy All the Time- The Flatmates (Love and Death)
6. Glad All Over- The Rezillos (Can't Stand the Rezillos)
7. Tour Heart Throb- All Girl Summer Fun Band (2)
8. Back to the Sea- The Sandwitches (How to Make Ambient Sadcake)
9. Albert- Essential Logic (Beat Rhythm News)
10. Moody (Spaced Out)- ESG (Come Away with ESG)
11. Stretch (99 Records Version)- Maximum Joy (Unlimited 1979-1983)
12. Private Armies- Vivien Goldman (Private Armies 12")
13. Eugenic Device- Creation Rebel and New Age Steppers (Threat to Creation)
14. Spend, Spend, Spend- The Slits (Cut)
15. No Looking- The Raincoats (The Raincoats)
16. Warrior- The Bitters (Wooden Glove 12")
17. Out of Control- Catatonic Youth (Piss Scene)
18. Handlebars- The Desperate Bicycles (Smokescreen 7")
19. Anti-Social Disease- Sick Things (Sick Things EP)
20. On Language- Julie Ruin (Julie Ruin)
21. Sally Ain't Nobody- PENS (Hey Friend, What You Doing?)
22. Inquiry Perpetrated- Thee Oh Sees (Thee Oh Sees/The Intelligence 12")
23. I Hate Danger- Bikini Kill (I Like Fucking 7")
24. Cry Aye Aye Aye- Shannon and the Clams (I Wanna Go Home)
25. Incense and Peppermints- Strawberry Alarm Clock (Incense and Peppermints)
26. Instant Heartache- The Cobras (Big Beat 7")
27. Safety Net- Shop Assistants (John Peel Festive 50- 1986)
28. Been Hiding- The Aislers Set (Last Match)
29. Tschik-Mo- Liliput (Liliput)
30. Saboten- Shonen Knife (Minna Tanoshiku)
31. You Killed A Boy For Me- Henry's Dress (Henry's Dress)
32. In My Memory- Beat Happening (Beat Happening)
33. Tilt-A-Whirl- Glo-Worm (Glimmer)
34. Iambic Pentameter- The Gist (Embrace the Herd)
35. Be My Baby- The Ronettes (Best of the Ronettes)

R.I.P. Ari-Up

Frontwoman for the Slits, Arianna Forster aka "Ari-Up" died of cancer on Wednesday, October 20th...

R.I.P.



As some poster on a blog put it, "u so punk rock gurl".

I heard it through the grapevine...

Whoa, here's the tracklist for THE BANSHEE BEAT show number two, which you can catch all this week for stream at rainydawg radio!

1. Oh Bondage Up Yours!- X-Ray Spex (Germfree Adolescents)
2. Tie Me Up- The Gizmos (Never Mind the Sex Pistols Here's the Gizmos)
3. Out of Line- Bobby Ubangi (Inside the Mind of Bobby Ubangi)
4. Casablanca- So Cow (So Cow)
5. My Chinchilla- Cub (Betti-Cola)
6. Tiny Sioux- Box Elders (Tiny Sioux 7")
7. Loog- The Clean (Mister Pop)
8. High Expectation- Stereolab (Switched On)
9. Show Me- Dislocation Dance (Midnight Shift)
10. Seikkaluun- Black Sunday (Swallow This Turd)
11. Staring At the Ceiling (Single version)- Slow Children (Slow Children)
12. Tinkertoy Tomorrow- Milk 'N Cookies (Milk 'N Cookies)
13. Wishing Well- The Shangri-Las (1964-1966- Myrmidons of Melodrama)
14. Blue Genes- The Champagne Socialists (Blue Genes 7")
15. Lazy Heart- Black Tambourine (Black Tambourine)
16. Surfin' Away- Vivian Girls (Surfin' Away 7")
17. Pterodactyl Meltdown- Wizzard Sleeve (Make the World Go Away)
18. I Feel Like Giving In- The Delmonas (Delmonas 5 & the Delmonas)
19. Something Else- The Nobles (Psychedelic Unknowns Vol. 2)
20. Decipher- Nice Face (Immer Itwas)
21. Moving Forward- The Death Set (Worldwide)
22. Tonight- The Spits (Vol. IV)
23. All I Give- The Hipshakes (Cococoma/Hipshakes 7")
24. If You Want Me- Indian Wars (Demo)
25. Love So Estranged- Rocketship (Singles 1993-96)
26. China Girl- Iggy Pop (w/David Bowie Mantra 1977)
27. Can't Seem to Make You Mine- The Seeds (The Seeds)
28. Dead West- Moon Duo (Killing Time EP)
29. Flying Saucer Safari- Suburban Lawns (Suburban Lawns)
30. Where's Captain Kirk?- Spizzenergi (Where's Captain Kirk? 7")
31. Not Moving- D.N.A. (No New York)
32. Flying Turns- Crash Course in Science (Signals From Pier Thirteen 12")
33. That's the Way Boys Are- Y Pants (Beat It Down)
34. I Heard It Through the Grapevine- The Slits (Cut)
35. Black Hole- Urinals (Negative Capability... Check It Out!)
36. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)- The Electric Prunes (The Electric Prunes)

oh my genitals!

This blog will now function as the companion to my new radio show, called THE BANSHEE BEAT!

Hopefully this will inspire me to update more, also... but anyway, here's the latest playlist for my show! I hope to figure out how to archive it in downloadable form soon, but until I can, you can catch the stream for this show until the next broadcast (Saturdays 2-4 PM!) at www.rainydawg.org! (DSKLMR though: While my playlist kicked a lot of ass this past week, my technology skills did not. I was using the wrong mic for the first half of the show, so ignore the awkward silences. Whoops!)

1. Janitor-Suburban Lawns (Suburban Lawns)
2. Popcorn Boy- Essential Logic (Beat Rhythm News)
3. Hank Williams Is Dead- Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes (Janice Long 8.10.1986)
4. Ana- Los Saicos (Wild Teen Punk From Peru)
5. Marina's Vampire- Clorox Girls (Demos, Rarities, and Early Singles)
6. Highly Evolved- Brilliant Colors (Highly Evolved 7")
7. You Never Notice Me- The Garlands (The Garlands EP)
8. R.P.M.- Sonic Surf City (On the Beach EP)
9. Chains (The Cookies)- The Delmonas (Dangerous Charms)
10. Baby Baby- The Vibrators (Baby Baby 7")
11. I'm Trash- The Trashwomen (Spend the Night with the Trashwomen)
12. Panty Exchange- Butts (Butts EP)
13. Burn Your Riches- Girls In the Eighties (Teenage Royalty)
14. Surfin' Coffin- Japanther (Rock 'N Roll Ice Cream)
15. Hots for Teacher- Coasting (Hots for Teacher/Coasting 7")
16. After Dark- Flowers (Confessions/"Life" After Dark 7")
17. Normal Never Happened- Broken Water (Normal Never Happened 7")
18. Oh Modern Girls- The Art Museums (Rough Frame)
19. To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)- Dara Puspita (a Go GO...)
20. Talia- Velvet Davenport (Happy Ending)
21. Sanity- Slow Animal (Slow Animal EP)
22. Feels So Good- FLIGHT (Feels So Good 7")
23. The Last Thing On My Mind- Bare Wires (Seeking Love)
24. Everything & More- The Dolly Mixture (Everything & More 7")
25. Springstung- Sweet Bulbs (CYBERGAZE)
26. Coffin- For Ex-Lovers Only (For Ex-Lovers Only)
27. Hollow Hollow Eyes- Crocodiles (Graffiti Island/PENS/Crocodiles/Dum Dum Girls split 7")
28. How Pretty Can You Get?-The Shangri-Las (1964-1966: Myrmidons of Melodrama)
29. The Model (Kraftwerk)- Big Black (Songs About Fucking)
30. Bored Housewives- Androids of MU (Blood Robots)
31. DeBbie HaRrry- Family Fodder (Savoir Faire)
32. Flying Saucer Attack- The Rezillos
33. The Fourth Dimension- The Ventures (Ventures in Space)
34. Simpler Times- Jeans Wilder
35. Holy Ghost- Dead Ghosts (Holy Ghost 7")
36. Shalalalalove- Sonic Chicken 4 (Sonic Chicken 4)
37. Come Dance With Me- The Fresh and Onlys (Imaginary Friends 7")
38. Ode to Booker T- Young Marble Giants (Colossal Youth)
39. Germ Free Adolescents- X-Ray Spex (Peel Sessions)

Milk 'N Cookies// The Exploding Hearts

POWER POP POST XPLOSION!



Milk 'N Cookies are a band from the New York scene of the 70's that played in the shadows of bands like the Ramones and Talking Heads at CBGB's and Max's. Caught somewhere along the lines of proto-punk post-glam pre-twee, Milk 'N Cookies are coated in bubblegum and excess.

I dare you not to like this song.

"Tinkertoy Tomorrow"


Check out their sole LP, recorded in '75 but released in '77, HERE!

next...

the exploding hearts!



A power pop/punk band formed in 2001 in Portland. In fact, they are one of the best punk bands I've heard post-original wave. Undeniably retro in approach, they wear their influences (along with their hearts?) on their sleeve(s)... but they manage to sound fresh even while recycling the past. Every song on their album Guitar Romantic is incredibly well-constructed and catchy... it's just begging for you to sing-a-long. Tragically, three out of four members of the band were killed in a van crash on July 19, 2003, after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. A short end to a promising young band, but they left us one album- which you can obtain here .

Here is a memorial video with the track "I'm A Pretender," my personal favorite from the album:


"just won't cry cause my life's goin' by
i'll find someone before the day i die"

Back!// Psychedelic Unknowns Vol. 2

For real, this time.

Lately I've been exploring the roots of pop and garage music- I found this great volume of a collection of rare psychedelic/garage tracks..

Tracks lost over the years, but unearthed here for your listening pleasure!



Calico Records, 1979

01. The Starfires - I Never Loved Her
02. The Kings Ransom - Shame
03. The Caretakers Of Deception - X + Y = 13
04. The Jury - Who Dat?
05. First Crew To The Moon - Spend Your Life
06. We The People - In The Past
07. The Painted Ship - Frustration
08. The Squires - Going All The Way
09. The Front Line - Got Love
10. The Nobles - Something Else
11. Yesterday's Children - To Be Or Not To Be
12. Dave Diamond & The Higher Elevation - The Diamond Mine